social and political but it was too much by a generation of female players across the middle east. let's do it. on al-jazeera. ethiopia's prime minister says eritrean soldiers have agreed to withdraw from the tikrit region after months of denying they were even there. hello there i missed on the attack and this is al jazeera live from durham also coming up a warning that germany's 3rd wave of craven 1000 may be the worst one yet with fears of 100000 infections the day. the latest attempts to free the mega ship of

blocking the suez canal failed as maritime traffic builds up adverse ends of that waterway and politicians from both parties travel to the u.s. border with mexico painting starkly different pictures of the challenges that. now ethiopia says eritrea has agreed to withdraw its forces from the northern tier grey region where they've been accused of killing raping and torturing civilians it was only this week that ethiopian prime minister ahmed finally admitted that there eritrean forces all into gray after months of denials eritrea and ethiopia for a border war from 1900 to 2000 although a final peace deal wasn't agreed until 2018 was later awarded the nobel peace prize for ending that conflict ethiopia's current government and eritrea have a common enemy in the to grand people's liberation front the t.v. l.f. . was the leading force and if european politics for almost 30 years until abbey

became prime minister catherine soy has. one of the clearest indications of the presence of eritrean forces in tikrit i came from the town of bizet this was right before if e.o.p. and prime minister b. are met addressed parliament on tuesday and admitted for the 1st time the troops from the neighboring country had crossed into border areas in the north west of the guy he argued the soldiers crossed into theall because of concerns about attacks by forces of the to gripe people's liberation front several rockets were fired into areas traffic from t. gray when the conflict began last november your national security would days the. the reason why they are there is because of a national security concern we also informed territorial government they are being accused of wrongdoing looting and other things the government strongly denounced these allegations and said it will take stronger measures on any of its soldiers

who are found guilty. prime minister a bin now says they returned soldiers will leave this is after a meeting he held with the president. in the every trend capital asmara the detail in timeline of the withdrawal he's high of a still unclear if the eritrean troops withdrawal and that is only if they totally withdrawal which is a big if they're not that mean that it would be very difficult. respectable military to completely crush this rebellion by the socal to great defense forces so it's really not clear what the implications of the military strategy there is from the federal government. they are also looking to pursue some sort of secession hostilities and there are more reports coming out of the region the un refugee agency unit c r ceased to refugee camps that were hosting about $20000.00 every tran refugees but destroyed by an unknown people and there were about of most of the refugees is

a known been able to contact around 2000 they are also staying in the neighboring towns in the care of their insurer some have also been pounding the capital addis but when our teams were able to reach it's also ensure melber what they saw was a. large areas of the shelters level to the ground or offices or just holes also burnt to the ground the forces integrity have been accused of abuses including killings torture rape and destruction of property they feel human rights commission and the united nations refugee agency have agreed to conduct a joint investigation into their leg ations of abuses committed by all sides catherine sawyer are. now parts of kenya will return to lockdown to fight what the president is calling a devastating coronavirus death rates the country is experiencing

a 3rd wave of the virus with. nearly a quarter of tests coming back positive that's up from just 2 percent in january people in the capital nairobi and 4 of the counties have been told not to travel to other areas restaurants bars and most schools have been ordered to close curfews they're all being extended meanwhile german health officials are warning that its latest wave of the corona virus could be the west so far they're urging people to stay home during the upcoming used the holiday to help slow the rapid rise in infections there are fears there could be as many as 100000 new cases every day unless the spread is cut. she's you can only just use a very you remove you can there are clear signals that this we have could become significantly worse than the 1st 2 waves we must prepare for the number of cases rising strongly and that more people get seriously ill again that hospitals will get overburdened and that's a lot of people will die we are just at the beginning of this development and if we don't mess if you contest to immediately the consequences will be grave and brazil

has reported more than $3600.00 coronavirus deaths that's a new record for a single day curious have been growing for intensive care beds as infections there that's prompted the country's most populous states sao paolo to extend a lockdown measures there until april the 11th. and meanwhile in rio de janeiro as you can see protesters rallied as the country's 2nd biggest city began a 10 day lockdown non-essential shops and businesses will be closed but demonstrators say they need to work despite a financial aid package that was announced this week. and now argentina has announced it will suspend flights from brazil chile and mexico to prevent the spread of new variants of covert 19 these measures will come into effect on saturday the government says it's concerned about the rising number of infections in neighboring brazil which is now recorded more than 12000000 cases tina has

reported nearly 2300000 infection so far to raise about has this update from what is aries well there is a major concern in argentina about what's happening not only in brazil but also in countries like part of why for example were hospitals have collapsed some struggling to attend to those who are suffering from coronavirus also an increase in cases in europe why neighboring you are why among others and that's why president got a phone number is and his government announced that they're canceling flights from chile from mexico and from brazil back in december they had announced already cancellations of flights coming from the united kingdom because of fears of this new strain of coral now virus well now they're increasing the amount of countries that are banned from flying to argentina aside from canceling flights they're also imposing new restrictions on tourists arriving to argentina they're not only going to need a test to get into the flight but another one to once they land and if that test is

false today they'll have to isolate in a hotel the government has also just announced that they're going to be increasing the amount of spirit that passes from one shot of a vaccine to the 2nd one and shortages of vaccines is a major concern not only in argentina but across the region chile is one exception because of the vaccines but countries like argentina peril white have been struggling in fact that americans who are some of presidential summit happened the friday it was scheduled to take place here in sight is but it was passed and moved online mostly because of the threat of coral no virus. now moving on and the latest attempt to refloat the mega ship blocking egypt so as canal has failed as fallout grows for global trade and then wedged across that crucial 2nd rate for 3 days now and one can ripple. confusion about the fate of the ever given a team of salvage experts flew in from the netherlands to help the so far unsuccessful attempts to dislodge the vessel while egyptian officials seemed

confident the su is canal would reopen soon the dutch expert said they wouldn't commit to a specific time frame saying it could take days or weeks it's a mammoth task the ship is 400 mi is long weighing 200000 tonnes and it's stuck in what's often described as the most important shipping lane in the world a maritime accident with global implications shipping analysts already predicting disruption and price hikes the series can now ease on the feet of amazing engineering that the world has taken for granted for 150 years what has happened is very unusual i can't remember it happening before they have a given container ship became wedged across the so it's canal on choose day when high winds blew it of course about 12 percent of global trade passes through the 193 kilometer long canal which connects the red sea with the mediterranean providing the shortest link between asia and europe the vessel carrying around

20000 containers is registered in panama and operated by taiwanese transport company evergreen marine it was sailing from china to the port city of rotterdam in the netherlands when it got stuck this image posted on a ship tracking website shows the buck log of many vessels stuck at the exit and entry points and in the middle. the vast majority of oil from the gulf is transported to europe through the canal global oil prices have risen as a result industry experts are warning of a flood of insurance claims covering the vast amounts of cargo being held up automotive parts and consumer goods containers may have to be offloaded in order to lessen the wait the suez canal authority says around $20000.00 ships pass through the canal last year and in egypt billions of dollars in total fee revenue the ever given is $1.00 of the largest container ships in the world but for every hour and every day it remain stuck on a reef and stationary there are concerns about its financial fallout and the impact

on global trade him on current. u.s. politicians are sparring over the surge and migrants crossing the border with mexico including the arrival of unaccompanied children which has now reached me a record levels in recent weeks but democrats and republicans have been visiting border facilities in texas democrats say the trumpet ministration left behind a broken system unable to deal with asylum seekers humanely but republicans blame president biden for encouraging migrants to make the journey all of us today witnessed the biden cage's. what is occurring here on the border is heartbreaking and it is a tragedy we requested that media company in the facility by did ministration said no. the trump administration allowed media inside facilities like that the obama administration allowed media inside facilities like that the george w. bush administration had the bill clinton administration hand but the administration

wants to hide what is going on here. and so we're here today to find solutions. we're here today to go back to washington and offer recommendations for how this process can be improved how the asylum process can be improved and people's human rights can be respected. once you have a chance he has been monitoring those visits for us from macallan in texas neither party ever seems to accept the fact that the reason why there is such instability in central america is in large part due to the success of democrat and republican administrations who have destabilized central america through their foreign policy but yesterday we've had the republicans say that the over crowding out the border is because of a bite that the ministration gone they flung open the frontage to disease written migrants the coyote's were trafficking them whereas the democrats are saying no

this is a system that was broken by trump and now they're here as the cavalry to fix the system and it's true yes donald trump did dismantle the system of asylum in the us at the southern border but it's also true contrary to that republican narrative the joe biden has retained the most draconian parts off that flouting of domestic and international humanitarian law when it comes to dealing with asylum joe biden is not allowing the vast majority of asylum seekers to get into the system he's not allowing them due process only unaccompanied children and now apparently reluctantly by the assertion is allowing in families of mothers and fathers with children under the age of 7 but only because mexico is refusing to take those families. well that's kind of money is on the other side of that border in tijuana mexico many as we've been hearing lots of rhetoric that from the u.s. side of the border what do you actually seeing on the ground there.

we've been returning to this migrant camp at inch up i'll point of entry really just a few meters away from the us mexico border where there is somewhere between 80058500 migrants that have been camped out here some of them for over a month others new arrivals in the time that we've been here over the past few days we've seen a steady flow of people continuing to arrive in in fact the 1st line of tents that we have behind us here is. actually just popped up over night and people here are abreast of the news a lot of the folks that we've been speaking to say that they did actually listen to that press conference yesterday where president biden made it very clear that the border is closed where he said that he expects mexico to share in the burden of taking care of migrant families that will be inevitably deported from the united states back to mexico but the overwhelming sentiment to the common theme that we hear from families whether it be central american families from countries like

honduras and guatemala or families from southern mexico states like me truck gun and what haka and psychotic as fleeing violence links a car tells there is hope they hope that by the grace of god by u.s. authorities border authorities will change their minds will open the borders give them opportunity to plead their asylum cases to u.s. officials earlier today we were at a separate facility where we spoke to one woman from honduras who was who had crossed illegally into texas just a few days ago and she was moved transferred more than 2000 kilometers west in the california before being sent to mexico and that gives us a little bit of an insight into it into a tactic in non-official policy by u.s. border officials. makes that complicates things even further for migrants and what we're hearing from both migration policy experts and human rights observers is that that tactic coupled with title 42 that forces people that prevents asylum seekers

from actually officially being able to seek asylum in the united states that along with this policy announced by president biden yesterday that will require migrant families to be sent back to mexico is is in violation of international humanitarian law and obligations that the united states has through treaties that have been signed and ratified we have unfortunately yet to hear from the mexican or mexican officials as to how these policies will be implemented here on the side of the border. there for us in tijuana mexico telling us not the situation on the ground thanks so much man. also ahead from here on out of their. anger and arrests as the u.s. state of georgia signs controversial new version rules into law. celebrations turned to violence and bangladesh as it marked. independent.

of saying those violent storms making their way across the southeastern coast of the u.s. to this little clutch of thunderheads rattling through this is where we saw those tornadoes pushing across northern parts of alabama causing that damage there we have got that system still in place here as we go on through the next couple of days actually a fear that could be further problems just around the deep south across a similar area showers perhaps not quite as intense as we go through saturday but come sunday if anything they will pep up that become a little more widespread so there is the likelihood of further tornadoes coming through here as we go on through a good part of this weekend that wetter weather will push up towards the eastern seaboard cooling off turning wetter there for new york and also for d.c. there was some snow in the northern flank of that eastern parts of canada central areas will turn

a little dry by the time we do come to worst sunday or to weather some snow coming in across the pacific northwest into that western side of canada notice still some wet weather there all the way down into southern parts of texas wanted to showers to just spreading their way across the eastern areas of mexico a little more cloud here at least for a time but across much of the caribbean it's looking good as go through the next couple of days more the west sunshine and showers. but. you are dealing with a very powerful people people in influential positions in government where we know there were elements within the police completely adman's that were getting scared that we were getting too close to some people higher up the mine who could handle. it in the job is up. to is essentially the perfect crime you have a diplomatic bag that caught the open ended congress search al-jazeera investigates

the poaches pipeline. hello again i'm the let's remind you of our top stories here this hour ethiopia says eritrea has agreed to withdraw its forces from the northern tikrit region where they've been accused of killing civilians if european prime minister has finally admitted eritrean forces are in tikrit after months of denials. the latest attempt to refloat the mega ships blocking egypt's suez canal has failed as fallout chorus for global trade it's been wedged across that crucial shipping route now for 3 days. and u.s.

politicians have been visiting border facilities in texas following the wreck or touch of migrants arriving in recent weeks it comes a day after president joe biden defended his handling of the influx of migrants out the southern border calling it a seasonal increase. now a coalition of civil rights groups is suing the u.s. state of georgia after its republican governor signed sweeping new version restrictions into law and comes as republicans and many other states are pushing for similar changes as former president continues to blame his election loss on verse or fraud alan fischer has moved from washington d.c. . from the white house condemnation. process if you don't leave any 0. 0 you do nothing but here you are. demonstrators gathered in the state house as the republican governor saying this weeping measures behind closed doors why is the governor trying to sign something

in private one state legislature was arrested for banging on the do not pulling on it. in the presidential election then sent 2 democratic senators to congress in a runoff election is the democratic. is on america. to try to make it harder for people to vote. rather than making it easier. for people to vote here are some of the key measures in the new law there will be voter id number required for absentee voting that replaces the old signature checks there will be a limit on the number of drop boxes for early voters in each county so it will be less convenient the law makes it an offense to hand out food and drink to those waiting in line to vote and those lines get long but it does expand in past and early voting the man who signed the bill into law says this cuts the chances of electoral fraud georgia's will no doubt be soon overwhelmed with band 6 t.v.

ads mailers and radio spots attacking this commonsense election reform measure. in fact left wing groups funded by out of state billionaires are already doing that now they're using outrageous false rhetoric to scare you into millions of dollars in their own pocket there was no bribe this is not about the only thing this is a response to is the increase voter turn our back in brown or motors in the state of georgia georgia's election process is already seen as one of the most efficient in the country so critics claim this is the solution to a problem that never existed one of much and by don't trump and his supporters it will put pressure on politicians in washington especially democrats to come up with a national baseline for wanting rules and regulations and to do it soon alan fischer al-jazeera. now karen walker joins us from atlanta in georgia she is

a republican strategist and also the founder of black conservatives for truth a grassroots organization dedicated to minority engagement karen thanks for being with us i want to start by asking you as an african-american woman yourself are you concerned that this new package of law as well as as many as we've been hearing there argue will it disenfranchise black bush is. absolutely not this is a very very good deal as in many of the items that the democrats said that the bill would not have this bill is now a law that the governor signed it into law yesterday. we have no absentee ballot boating i mean no excuse absentee ballot voting so you don't have to have an excuse to grow we still have ever drop boxes extend a voting to our you know send a voting saturday voting this is a very good feel the reason that the democrats are complaining is because it works

towards their narrative a republican voter suppression again you know against black and brown people but it's just not true karen i was having a look at some of the numbers so bear with me here a voter rolls by man standing have grown by 2000000 people but polling stations have been cut by nearly 10 percent these are stats from georgia public broadcasting so something like 80 percent of the new voters that we're seeing a non white so there are these huge lines and non white neighborhoods where people have been waiting for hours in some cases more than 10 hours so even if you pass a law saying no one can give them food or water in line surely that impacts just who can vote absolutely not if you're going to be in line you can bring your own water you can bring your own food. nobody we've never had a situation where people are bringing water and food we've had long lines before this is just nit picking to be against that when you talk about the polls there are many polls that are very close together and sound polls have more track than others

you know it costs money to to open these polls to hire workers staffers to have the ballot boxes is about just. having everything concise but still being able to meet the needs of georgia's voters and we're doing that very well during our general election the process went very smoothly in terms of voting in person karen you say that when really smoothly but also looking at numbers from that same survey it looked like the average wait time off to 7 pm across the state was 51 minutes and polling places that were 90 percent or more non white but only 6 minutes in polling places that were 90 percent white how do you explain that if you say that you think that things went well that is not the survey that i have heard of that i've read when you're talking about georgia voters we've had great experiences during the primary we did have problems we did have we did have excessive loring's

but that did not occur even in largely minority communities during the general election it flowed very well. you know we heard a lot of things but about that was not one of them during the general maybe during the primary but not now. so karen as you were saying these laws do expand what your encouraging but it also adds these new idea requirements and a lot of people are saying that could be harder than for working people to cost ballots because they might not have i.d.'s does that worry you when it comes to representation. absolutely not 98 percent of georgians actually have i.d. and if you do not have a driver's license you can use any other state id if you don't have a state id you can win new york lying or absentee ballot you can use your social security number they will meche yourself as the number i give to any other

government programs that you may participate in as a way to identify you so the driver's license it's. a stand there and factor it's i mean it's just something that they want to nitpick over just as they want to nit pick over their draft ballot karen has or i do want to ask you very briefly before we go there is an implicit assumption here that the electoral system is broken and needs to be fixed you seem to think that it doesn't need to is the electoral system broken i don't think that the electoral system is broken there are some i don't fit some items that need to be taken care of and that's what this bill does it's strength then election integrity so that people would have faith in the process of voting because when you have faith in voting when you have faith in the process you're more likely to come out to vote georgia has $159.00 counties over $100.00 counties did not have said they voting at all now we have to actually

know sunday voting drug boxes before the pandemic we never had drop boxes so how can you be suppressed from something that you never had we have drop boxes now because of the pandemic but we are now keeping it in place and if you can't get to the right box your mailbox is a drop box just just drop your ballot in the mail and karen walker that joining us from atlanta georgia the founder of black conservatives for truth really great to get your thoughts here on out of there thanks for being with us. thank you. now moving on and 2 trains have collided in central egypt killing at least 32 people and injuring at least 165 others they were away with or as he says someone triggered the emergency brakes on one of those trains and the other one crashed into it from behind the president is promising to punish those responsible more than 1000 train accidents annually in egypt and that is according to the

government's statistical authority. i have a hard time believing that that's the product of incompetence on the part of low level employees we have as an infrastructure problem we have a government problem. at least 4 people have been killed by police in bangladesh in protests against a visit from india's prime minister dozens more were injured officials say the protesters were followers of an islamist group which accuses the render modi of alienating india's minority muslims he's in bangladesh to mark 50 year since it won independence from pakistan. has more now from dhaka. there has been protests for the last one week actually by the leftist party as well as by the right wing religious parties and now the criticism and not so much against india and its people the criticism is 2nd is more they and is party they feel like this prime minister has a hand in good job dryad he is citizenship the border killing the kashmir killing

against muslims in india all these issues come into play also the fact that india has not been a very good partner it has a negotiated water treaty and other pending issues now just today there's been major clashes in the commercial area by the progressive left wing students on the left and the biggest mosque has a major protest by the religious right parties the mosque right now as i speak is surrounded by police and ruling party supporters and been clashing also in chittagong the headquarter of this is that they slimy one of the major religious platforms who's been supporting against this approach to any supporting mean protesting against india's more these visit here so a lot of clashes going on many people have been detained dozens of people have been injured and it's an ongoing thing still going on in dhaka.